Description
In a modest St. Petersburg room, a circle of young revolutionaries waits for the arrival of Nezhdanoff—an idealist pulled into the Populist dream of awakening the Russian peasantry. As plans unfold and identities blur, Turgenev follows a range of revolutionary types, from the fervent speaker whose zeal only unsettles villagers, to the devoted woman who disguises herself to work among the poor, and the blunt agitator whose calls for violent upheaval backfire. At the center is Nezhdanoff, an illegitimate son of the aristocracy, whose longing for justice collides with the realities of class, persuasion, and human consequence. With Turgenev’s clear-eyed, psychologically nuanced style, *Virgin Soil* probes the hopes and limits of political idealism—asking what it truly means to “sow” change in a society that may not be ready to receive it.
Available Editions
paperback
Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Published Sep 20, 2021
279 pages
ISBN: 9783986470982
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Details
First Published
1877
Language
eng
Translation
From: rus
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev.